Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and 9 N subtypes. Only those labeled ...

The Arizona Department has issued a warning after avian flu was found in milk produced by cows at a dairy in Maricopa County. AZDA did not identify the dairy, but said the detection happened on June ...

A salmonella outbreak and subsequent recall could slow that the trend of egg prices decreasing. Here's what's happening with ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

A recent study found that live bird flu virus (H5N1) can survive in raw milk for over a week when refrigerated, and more than 24 hours at room temperature.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) considers a bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm in Brazil as "resolved," a page detailing the case on WOAH's website showed on Friday.

In the 20th century, the NIH documented three pandemics caused by mutations of the influenza A virus — the 1918 Spanish influenza, (H1N1), the 1957 influenza pandemic in southeast Asia (H2N2 ...